A gourmet hotel restaurant is an ideal place to dine, as there are plenty of soft beds nearby when everyone faints from tasting the delicious cuisine. Enjoy a savory syncope with today's Groupon: for $25, you get $50 worth of New American cuisine and drinks at Rein restaurant in the Garden City Hotel.

Furnished with stately, wood décor and red velvet curtains, Rein puts a regal twist on contemporary American cuisine via its appetizers and entrees. Dining-room architect and designer Robert DiLeonoardi sets the sophisticated scene for a stage bill of well-seasoned stars, starting with Georges Bank sautéed scallops ($17), dressed with Spanish mangaliza ham in a cauliflower vichyssoise and orange-leek confit. Entrees evoke images of men sipping cognac from curvy snifters. Graze with grace on plates of pepper-crusted, Montana-raised rib eyes ($48) or juniper-marinated venison ($38). Braised red cabbage, stuffed lady apples, and star anise complement each venison cut, alongside hot flushes of large, duck-fat-fried fries or smack-down potatoes ($6 each). Lounge postmeal with a fireside digestif, accompanied by a friend, loved one, or FDR's ghost.

Reviews

Gayot mentioned Rein and Garden City Patch featured it. OpenTable reviewers give the restaurant an overall average of 3.8 stars and Zagat gives the food at Rein a 23:

• Although the restaurant provides a very classy upscale atmosphere and Chef De Bruyn's New American food is world class, the restaurant is enormously cozy and the staff extremely warm and friendly. – Maureen Rossi, Garden City Patch
• The best table service I have experienced on Long Island. – OpenTable reviewer who dined on 11/25/2010